Working in Digital or Hiring in Digital, Focus 5 Are Here For You!

The Digital workforce play an ever increasing importance in any business.

With being found online a key priority as well as a social presence, the right digital skills are essential to the growth of many businesses.

What Digital roles do Focus 5 recruit?

Working with a wide range of companies, whether you’re a candidate looking for a role or a client looking for a hire, Focus 5 Recruitment are here to help and ensure you enjoy the recruitment process.

We work in Digital and that covers e-commerce companies, SaaS, fin-tech, health-tech, cyber security as well as other Tech companies.

Finding the right role or people to take your business forward is what we do.

At Focus 5, we specialise in recruiting the following Digital roles:

Search Engine Optimisation, SEO roles
Pay Per Click, PPC specialists
User Interface / User Experience, UI/UX roles
Conversion Rate Optimisation, CRO specialists
Digital or graphic designers
Social Media, Content and Copywriting specialists
CRM and Email Marketing roles
Analytics, Web and Digital Marketing Specialists

What Key Skills & Knowledge is required?

Depending on the role, you’ll need particular technical skills:

Creating and drive campaigns across multiple channels
Designing and executing social media plans
Writing compelling copy
Building and maintaining websites and updates
Monitoring activities and results – from website visitors to SQLs (Sales Qualified Leads) and MQLs (Market Qualified Leads)
Reporting on conversion rates and engagement
Website CMS knowledge
Understanding of SEO and search ranking

Qualifications vs Experience

Although some roles list a degree as desirable or essential, there are a number of alternative ways of gaining digital knowledge.

Google Skillshop

e-learning courses designed by Google product experts, learn at your own pace and get Google product certified.

Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)

The world’s leading professional marketing body with over 30,000 members worldwide, including more than 3,000 Chartered Marketers.

Qualifications, training courses and Chartered membership.

Future Learn

A social learning platform, drawing on expertise from The Open University, BBC, social media designers, and FutureLearn partners.

Average Salary

Digital salaries vary, depending on the skills, experience and location.

Social Media Managers: £28k - 32k
CRM Lead: 40k - 48k
Graphic Designers: 25k - 32k
Digital Marketing Specialist: 25k - 30k